SRINAGAR — Ruckus broke out in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Tuesday after BJP MLA from Doda West Shakti Parihar alleged regional discrimination in transfers in the education department. Parihar claimed while transfers in the education department have been affected in Kashmir, “Jammu has been ignored”. This led to a ruckus between the treasury […]
JAMMU — Scores of protesters took to the streets in Jammu and Kashmir’s Katra town on Tuesday against the proposed Vaishno Devi ropeway plan, and threatened to resume a chain hunger strike if the project was not shelved. Locals of Katra, the base camp for the Vaishno Devi pilgrimage, have been opposing the Rs 250-crore […]
SRINAGAR — PDP MLA Waheed Para on Tuesday said a “sharp regional divide” in the issuance of social category certificates between the Jammu division and Kashmir Valley has been witnessed over the past two years, which exposed a “grave breach of fairness, equality, merit and administrative impartiality”. Para’s comments came over data shared by the […]
SRINAGAR — The official websites of various departments of the Jammu and Kashmir government and its related portals are being made trilingual to promote the Hindi language, and to ensure inclusivity and wider accessibility, the assembly was informed here on Tuesday. In a written reply to BJP MLA from Udhampur East, Ranbir Singh Pathania, about […]
SRINAGAR — Noisy scenes were witnessed in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Tuesday after Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather rejected an adjournment motion moved by the BJP for a discussion on the “humanitarian crisis” caused by the recent natural calamity in the Union territory. As soon as the House proceedings started, BJP MLA from Udhampur […]
JAMMU — Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Monday inaugurated the BioNEST Incubator at north India’s first industrial biotech park in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, terming it the beginning of a new era of scientific enterprise and economic transformation. With around 11,000 startups in India’s biotech sector and 25 new startups being incubated at the […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday asserted that his party, the National Conference (NC), stands alone in actively confronting the BJP, while sharply criticising rivals for forging covert or outright ties with the saffron party. Talking to reporters here, Abdullah emphatically dismissed speculation of any alliance between the NC and […]
JAMMU — An application of detained Aam Aadmi Party MLA Mehraj Malik seeking permission to participate in the ongoing assembly session was adjourned on Monday by the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh till October 30, a day before the autumn session is scheduled to end. The lawyers of Malik, the president of […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday admitted that his initial optimism for the restoration of statehood is “diminishing” by the day as the process drags on, saying that the prolonged wait is inevitably chipping away at his faith. However, the chief minister said that despite the decrease in optimism after […]
ISLAMABAD — President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday reiterated Pakistan’s unwavering support to the people of Kashmir in their “just struggle for right to self-determination.” The top political leadership issued separate messages for October 27, observed as a ‘Black Day’ against what Pakistan claims as the alleged invasion by the […]